Van Alen Institute
Wed, Sep 16 - Fri, Oct 9, 2009
10am - 6pm
The Arctic sea ice is melting and the facts are hard to ignore. For many in New York City, where the bustle and insularity of urban life masks a broader ecological system in distress, the receding arctic ice shelf and its attendant consequences are incomprehensible. Nataly Gattegno and Jason K. Johnson’s “The Aurora Project”, a large-scale interactive installation connecting real time data in the Arctic to immersive LED fields and responsive skins in Van Alen Institute’s gallery, will function both as index of an emerging global condition and as indicator of human impact on conditions beyond our limited field of perception.
Gattegno and Johnson are currently in residence as Summer 2009 Van Alen Institute New York Prize Fellows.
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